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The Border Watch : October 25th 2013
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NEWS TIPS newsroom@tbw.com.au COMMENT 13 Untapped potential Strong advocate needed to promote South East tourism region deserves. LIBERAL Candidate for Mount Gambier Troy Bell has highlighted a valuable industry (The Border Watch, October 22) that has been allowed to wither on the vine because of a lack of promotion of the magnifi cent attractions in the Limestone Coast region. We seem to have become the forgotten hump of South Australia and it is refreshing to hear Mr Bell advocating for the recognition our Cyclists should pay fair share I AGREE with the opinions of all the correspondents published on the comment page in The Border Watch on October 18 and support the idea that cyclists contribute to the cost of maintaining roads and not rely on taxes and other revenue from motorists. It is obvious that this ridiculous idea was from a person with too little work to do and has to make a suggestion to justify his/her employment. That person should be awarded a DCM and shown the door. P Brown, Mount Gambier City growth not always popular THE furore over the opening of the Correctional Services project seems a bit silly in my opinion. As our city grows there will inevitably be similar projects undertaken at other precincts that are frequented by criminals, such as the police station, the courthouse, legal service offi ces, et cetera, so I have a good idea about the openings. The dignitaries could creep in under the cover of darkness and have a midnight ribbon cutting ceremony. Job done and the public would never need know about it. Di McEwen, Mount Gambier The ongoing neglect of the Limestone Coast is once again evident with the State Government providing $6m for the tourism sector in the Barossa Valley region. Over the years the Limestone Coast has experienced token support which has always ended short-term and then diminished. The staff resource for tourism locally has reduced from three staff to one. As a motelier and restaurant operator of the region, it is frustrating to hear of this large offer after a similar hand-out was made for Kangaroo Island the previous year. It’s time that this region is brought to the top of the list. Tom Kosch, Mount Gambier Regions soon forgotten by Coalition government THE new Coalition Government has reinforced its historical neglect of regional Australia by announcing it will axe the Department of Regional Australia. They are repeat offenders in this. Whether it was Robert Menzies who scrapped Chifl ey’s cooperative regionalism program, Malcolm Fraser who obliterated Whitlam’s Department of Urban and Regional Development or John Howard who took the axe to that same department after the Hawke-Keating governments committed to rebuilding it, the Coalition has a lamentable record. It means that all of us in the great regions around the nation will now need to steel ourselves for a battle to secure the support and funding required to ensure economic and social cohesion outside the capital cities. It already appears clear that the Coalition will also not honour funding for 103 projects across regional Australia with a combined project value of more than $1b, which I signed off on as minister, but for which contracts were not concluded before the election. To throw regional needs and priorities like these into the mix of a super-sized government department is clear evidence of the Coalition’s apathy towards regional Australia. After promising the National Press Club just weeks ago that regional development would be at the forefront of the Coalition’s policy agenda, Nationals leader Warren Truss has yet again been rolled by the Liberal Party. If the Nationals cannot stand up for regional Australians, who can they stand up for? 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